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Cheryl K. Chumley

Cheryl Chumley is online opinion editor for The Washington Times, the author of “The Devil in DC: Winning Back the Country From the Beast in Washington” and of "Police State USA: How Orwell’s Nightmare is Becoming Our Reality," and a 2008-2009 Robert Novak journalism fellow with The Fund for American Studies. Email her at cchumley@washingtontimes.com.

Hollywood's Brad Pitt, born in Oklahoma and raised in Missouri, said he's not only a committed pro-Second Amendment rights American, but he's also owned a gun since he was a kid.
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October 14, 2014

President Obama and his fellow Democrats may talk a good game when it comes to eschewing the influence of lobbyist and big-corporation money in politics, but they're hardly following through with action, said "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart in a blistering commentary.
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October 14, 2014

Denver police warned parents to be watchful this Halloween via a local marijuana dispensary owner who said it's nearly impossible to tell the difference between candy covered with hash oil and candy that's safe for underage snackers.
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October 14, 2014

A pilot navigating Air France Flight 447 knew his plane was about to crash and, in the final moments, shouted out a panicky, expletive-laced pronouncement: "[Expletive], we're dead!"
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October 14, 2014

A new video showing how Islamic State members train their recruits to be terrorists reveals an interesting aside — the tents in the background at the jihadist camps are clearly marked with "US."
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October 14, 2014

The website for Christian actor Kirk Cameron's new movie about saving the true meaning of Christmas, titled "Saving Christmas: Put Christ Back in Christmas," has been targeted by Islamic hackers — the second such hack in about a month.
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October 14, 2014

Republican holdouts for a Mitt Romney for president in 2016 can let go the hope. Mr. Romney will not be making any White House campaign moves -- and that's the word from one who knows him best, his wife, Ann.
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October 14, 2014

A town in California is a bit on edge about a mysterious clown -- or maybe, more than one clown -- who's been wandering around the streets every night for the past couple of weeks.
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October 14, 2014

Coinbase, a company that facilitates the financial transaction of digital currencies — like Bitcoin — has hired a former staffer for Sen. Tom Carper, with expectations that he's going to use his savvy of Capitol Hill to advance the industry.
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October 14, 2014

Hong Kong police assembled by the hundreds, chainsaws in hands, to cut down street protesters' barricades on Tuesday, the latest in a long-running standoff between pro-democracy rallies and law enforcement.
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October 14, 2014

Fox News pundit and host Bill O'Reilly issued some scathing criticisms against the director of the Centers for Disease Control, calling on him to resign while accusing him of "spinning" the American people about the true dangers of Ebola.
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October 14, 2014

Sen. Mitch McConnell is near-sure of three things in the lead-up to November elections — that he'll win re-election, that the Republicans will take over the Senate, and that he'll be selected to lead the Senate.
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October 14, 2014

Newly surfaced photographs of Kurdish fighting victims indicate that the Islamic State may have used chemical weapons to spread their swath of terror through the Middle East, a new report reveals.
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October 14, 2014

North Korea's Kim Jong-un, the dictator who hasn't been seen by the public eye in about five weeks, has finally made an appearance and resumed the "field guidance" tours that had been a regular part of his routine.
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October 14, 2014

Former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson said that Condoleezza Rice, who served as secretary of state and national security adviser under President George W. Bush, personally asked for special press treatment — specifically, for the newspaper to kill a story.
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October 13, 2014

Members of the Waldo, Florida, city council voted to disband the community's police force, putting to end a long-running and heavily criticized speed trap and reported ticket-quota program that brought in tons of revenue for local government coffers.
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October 13, 2014

A 15-year-old Czech girl told the parents of her 10-year-old friend that they were going outside to play, then took the girl into the woods and cut off her fingers with an ax as a tribute to Satan, authorities said.
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October 13, 2014

Democrats worried about the state of the Senate come November have reverted to what seems a last-hour strategy to rally their base to the polls, by telling their voters to close their ears and eyes to polling that paints the Republicans on a sure-fire path of a takeover.
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October 13, 2014